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RIDA 256 | 04-2018
Doctrine
Happy anniversary to the law of 1957 !
BENSAMOUN, Alexandra
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“‘It is doubtless too late to be still talking about it’. If the poet is to be believed, a fortnight is enough to make old news and the law of 11 March 1957 is already one year old.” These were the opening words of Marcel Boutet’s contribution to the April 1958 special issue of RIDA1 devoted to the law of 1957.It is that issue which lies behind this new opus, published in April 2018, thus sixty years later. To reply to Marcel Plaisant’s “Welcome to the Law”,2 a colloquium to wish a “Happy Anniversary to the Law” was held on 6 April 2018, with the support of SACEM, Sacem University, CERDI (Centre for Studies and Research in Immaterial Property Law, Paris-Sud/Paris-Saclay University), RIDA and AFPIDA (the French chapter of ALAI). This special issue thus constitutes the proceedings of the colloquium. The idea was to track the resonance of the law of 1957 in 2018, based on the various contributions to the 1958 special issue of RIDA. The objectives of the colloquium, and thus of this new special issue of RIDA, were to show how the text has evolved, to anchor the principles of the law of 1957 in the present, to compare the past with the present and the present with the future.